check out
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See also: checkout
English
[edit]Verb
[edit]check out (third-person singular simple present checks out, present participle checking out, simple past and past participle checked out)
- (intransitive) To confirm and pay for goods and services at a facility (e.g.: supermarket, online store, hotel) when leaving.
- 1977, “Hotel California”, in Don Henley, Glenn Frey (lyrics), Don Felder (music), Hotel California, performed by The Eagles:
- "Relax," said the night man / "We are programmed to receive / You can check out any time you like / But you can never leave!"
- Be sure to check out of the hotel before noon.
- I'm done shopping, so I'll go check out now.
- (transitive) To withdraw (an item), as from a library, and have the withdrawal recorded.
- He checked his favorite mystery out for the twenty-third time.
- (transitive) To record (someone) as leaving the premises or as taking something therefrom, as from a library or shop.
- The desk clerk checked out the family that had been staying in room 322.
- The library assistant was checking people out.
- 2010, Peterson's, Master the Corrections Officer Exam, Peterson's (→ISBN), page 9:
- At 9:30 am, 12 inmates were checked out to the dispensary.
- (transitive) To examine, inspect, look at closely, ogle; to investigate; to gather information so as to make a decision.
- 1979 August 25, Steven Tierney, “Darts”, in Gay Community News, volume 7, number 6, page 5:
- If Mr. Brill had been interested in accuracy, he might have read the written statement I presented that night. I was speaking on my own behalf because I felt that the Darts management deserved my support. Mr. Brill might even have asked me about my testmony. Instead he chose to check out his half-facts with others. His resultant report was inaccurate and divisive.
- He was hanging out at the beach, checking out the young women in bikinis.
- He checked out the rumor, and managed to verify that it was true.
- Check it out! Best prices in town.
- Check this out! They just arrested the Mayor!
- (transitive, computing) To obtain (source code or other material) from a repository so that one can modify it and later check it back in.
- (intransitive) To become uninterested in an activity and cease to participate in more than a perfunctory manner; to become uncooperative.
- 2010, S. Greggory Johnson III, The Black Professoriat: Negotiating a Habitable Space in the Academy, page 189:
- The purpose of this exercise was to ignite reactions from students, but over the few years I used it, it backfired, culminating in a situation where I lost a significant number of the white students, who just "checked out" for the rest of the semester.
- (intransitive) To become catatonic or otherwise nonresponsive.
- 2007, Susan Nathiel, Daughters of Madness: Growing Up and Older With a Mentally Ill Mother, page 42:
- Even during those years, there would be a lot of times she just checked out. She would be sitting there looking at her nails and she'd just be gone.
- (intransitive) To leave in a hurry.
- (intransitive, euphemistic, by extension) To die.
- 1972, The Mechanic (1972 film), Charles Bronson (as Mr. Bishop), Jan-Michael Vincent (as Steve):
- Steve: (referring to his girlfriend attempting suicide in front of both of them) Look, I was just an observer.
Bishop: You haven't answered my question.
Steve: Well, what do you think?
Bishop: We'll never know, will we?
Steve: Well, say I just sat there—or we just sat there—and watched her check out. Think that would have been crazy?
- Steve: (referring to his girlfriend attempting suicide in front of both of them) Look, I was just an observer.
- 2012, Gwen Sebastian, Met Him In a Motel Room:
- With a bottle full of sleeping pills and a long list of sins
She'd already planned on checking out before she checked in
- 1972, The Mechanic (1972 film), Charles Bronson (as Mr. Bishop), Jan-Michael Vincent (as Steve):
- (intransitive) To prove (after an investigation) to be the case, or to be in order.
- The first two leads check out; I'll assume the third one is also valid.
- Their stories checked out.
- 1960, “The Case of the Ill-Fated Faker”, in Perry Mason, season 4, episode 3:
- A comparison test was made with this weapon in laboratory. It definitely checks out as the murder gun.
- 2013, Steve Suehring, Janet Valade, PHP, MySQL, JavaScript & HTML5 All-in-One For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 459:
- MySQL checks the validity of the account name and password, and checks whether the connection is coming from a host that's allowed to connect [...]. If everything checks out, MySQL accepts the connection.
- (darts) To visit the oche for the last time and clear one's remaining points to win the game.
Antonyms
[edit]- (antonym(s) of “most senses”): check in
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]to pay when leaving
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to withdraw (an item) from a library etc., and have the withdrawal recorded
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to record someone as leaving
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to examine, inspect, look at closely
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to obtain computer source code from a source code control system
to leave in a hurry
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to die
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